How do the archeological finds change over time?
It’s a part of a whole cultural phenomenon as the general region of central Anatolia became increasingly Hellenized. The traditional Phrygian motifs in art and ceramics and all sorts of small finds gradually gave way to Greek models, and Greek became the dominant culture in the region. Eventually Anatolia came under Greek political control. The native Anatolian cultures—what were they and what were their contributions—and the whole process of this cultural shift—becoming Greek—is something that also interests me very much. It is clear, during the 9th and 8th centuries B.C. in central Anatolia, the Phrygians were technically more sophisticated than the Greeks. They were building monumental architecture and elaborate stone buildings, and they were making very complex bronze objects and a variety of other things. And the Phrygians continued to identify themselves as Phrygian for something like a thousand years after they became part of the Greek cultural world and then, eventually, of the
